{"id":3477,"date":"2017-07-17T01:54:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T01:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2017-07-17T01:54:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T01:54:15","slug":"eggs-ted-mc-carthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/eggs-ted-mc-carthy\/","title":{"rendered":"EGGS by Ted Mc Carthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3478 size-full lazyload\" title=\"EGGS  by Ted Mc Carthy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ted.jpg\" alt=\"EGGS  by Ted Mc Carthy\" width=\"927\" height=\"741\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ted.jpg 927w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ted-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ted-768x614.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 927px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 927\/741;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">EGGS<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Ted Mc Carthy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>In a momentary light where every wall<br \/>\nis white, and day waits to sink,<br \/>\nthis time in empty silence,<\/p>\n<p>a drunk weaving home, his t-shirt<br \/>\nblue as a boy\u2019s, carries in his head<br \/>\na clutch of speckled eggs<\/p>\n<p>lifted from a hedge on a morning<br \/>\nthat never was, clotheslines riotously bright,<br \/>\naerials gleaming like rocket-silver.<\/p>\n<p>Against the gathering hill, he threads<br \/>\nbetween pavement cracks, avoiding flowers<br \/>\nwhose names he doesn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Ted Mc Carthy is a poet and translator living in Clones, Ireland. His work has appeared in magazines in Ireland, the UK, Germany, the USA, Canada and Australia. He has had two collections published, &#8216;November Wedding&#8217;, and &#8216;Beverly Downs&#8217;.<br \/>\nHis work can be found on www.tedmccarthyspoetry.weebly.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Mc Carthy is a poet and translator living in Clones, Ireland. His work has appeared in magazines in Ireland, the UK, Germany, the USA, Canada and Australia. He has had two collections published, &#8216;November Wedding&#8217;, and &#8216;Beverly Downs&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}